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UR New York artists SKI (pictured) and 2ESAE installed site-specfic work inside the abandoned Loew’s Canal Theatre. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
White teens are way more into alcohol, tobacco and weed than black and Latino teens. But as white kids enter adulthood, their usage drops, while teens of color increase usage, according to new research from Penn State: At 18.5 years old, 44 percent of whites surveyed smoked cigarettes, 27 percent of Hispanics did and 18 […]
The trailer for the highly anticipated, critically-acclaimed HBO doc about Kurt Cobain has arrived. Rarely are two-and-a-half minute trailers as interesting as the one for Montage of Heck, which includes never-before-seen home videos and photos of the rock icon as a baby. Director Brett Morgen got exclusive access to Cobain’s personal archive and then supplemented […]
On Tuesday, senators from both sides of the aisle introduced a groundbreaking bill that would federally legalize medical weed. The bill, presented by Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Rand Paul (R-KY), would reclassify weed from a Schedule I drug to a Schedule II; allow doctors of the Department of Veterans Affairs to […]
Cursive is an indie rock band from Omaha. They are sometimes categorized as “emo,” a genre associated with scrawny men singing about feelings, not violence. But last night after their show at the Bowery Ballroom, a man was stabbed in the leg. An NYPD spokesperson confirmed to ANIMAL that a 23-year-old man was taken into […]
Street artist Danielle Mastrion is planning to paint a Biggie Smalls mural on the Key Foods supermarket at St. James Place and Fulton Street in Clinton Hill, the block where Biggie grew up. The mural is being shepherded by Leroy McCarthy, the man behind the stalled attempts to rename St. James between Fulton and Cambridge […]
On a snowy night in February, two graffiti writers used the cloak of winter to gain access into the Loew’s Canal Theatre — not to bomb it with aerosol — but to restore its former glory. Rather than desecrating the monument, they paid respects to it. “The project was just a random idea that came […]
The company that approves the ads you see on the MTA, CBS Outdoors, is okay with peddling 9/11 truther theories, hating Muslims, promoting impossible body standards and touting general sexiness, but it draws an arbitrary line at the suggestion of safe sex. The board has banned the ad, by Dumbo Moving + Storage, for being […]
Temperatures are expected to reach the low 60s in New York on Wednesday, so icy wind and snow on the ground may be mercifully behind us. Thus, Brighton Beach winter kite surfing is over, too. Say goodbye to winter by watching these guys make the best of it. “We need to get our fix. Advanced […]
With technology like Google Street View at our fingertips, it’s easy to take a visual catalog of relatively mundane New York City architecture — its doors — for granted. But Roy Colmer’s 3,000 photographs in “Doors, NYC,” aren’t a product of the digital age; they’re a meticulous and demanding undertaking that paint a portrait of […]
